Mazinaw Lake
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Mazinaw Lake is a lake in the Addington Highlands north of Kaladar in Eastern Ontario. The lake is situated on the upper Mississippi River. It is 13 km long and averages a bit over 1 km in width. It averages 41 m in depth. It is divided into North and South sections of the lake by a narrows, North Mazinaw being the larger of the two sections.
Bon Echo Provincial Park presides over the central section of the lake, including the narrows between North and South Mazinaw, as well as Bon Echo Rock.
A dam is located at the outflow of the lake to control water flow in the spring.
Mazinaw Lake, the second-deepest lake in Ontario, features over 260 native petroglyphs, or pictographs – the largest visible collection in Canada - including the Ojibwe trickster figure and culture hero, Nanabush. The lake's name means "painted images" in Algonquin, referring to the pictographs on Bon Echo Rock which overlooks the lake. The rock also contains a tribute to Walt Whitman, inscribed by Flora MacDonald Denison, who ran a tourist resort on the site of the provincial park during the 1910s.
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